Joanna Wilson
Research Assistant
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Joanna completed her Bachelor of Psychological Science in 2020 at the University of Queensland. She completed her honours thesis with the Lives Lived Well research group, exploring pain and psychotic like experiences in young people who use cannabis and the impacts of poor mental health and childhood trauma. Her research interests include AOD harm reduction and youth mental health.
The VMAX cohort study follows 850 people who use methamphetamine recruited from metropolitan Melbourne and 3 regions of rural Victoria.
The largest and longest-running active cohort study of people who inject drugs in Australia (since 2008).
The Drugs Trends Program includes the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).